Speaking Freely

Most Unread Books Meme

I found this list over at The Bitter Scroll, so naturally I wanted to see how many of those most unread books I’ve read. (I’ve read 53 of them, so exactly half) The list is provided by LibraryThing. Books I’ve read are in bold. Not sure how accurate the LibraryThing list is as there’s a lot of recognizable titles and my intuition says that there should be a lot more obscure titles in that list but here goes:

I just found the Hobbit to be for a much younger audience than LOTR. I enjoyed it, but like you, I picked it up after reading the trilogy because I wanted to know more history about Bilbo, Gollum and the ring.

thanks for the list. I did this meme before but didn’t tag it, so though it would be easier to just google search it, and yours is the third result.

Yesterday I *just* finished One Flew Over. It took me about two months (it was a bath room book, so I only read 1 or two page per ‘visit’.) and then yesterday I got to a point where I just couldn’t put it down.

My new years goal was to read more. I have two memes as my ‘reading list’ this one and the “top 100 by BBC” list a few years ago.

“On the Road” will probably be my next book and will have been the third time I checked it out. I’m about thee quarter in it when I had to return it last time.

THE MOST UNREAD BOOK IS THE MOST BOUGHT BOOK. IT IS THE BIBLE. FOR YEARS, IT SAT ON COFFEE TABLES WORLDWIDE AND RARELY READ. IT HARDLY EVER WAS READ FROM COVER TO COVER. THEREFORE, IT COULD BE CLASSIFIED AS THE MOST BOUGHT BOOK UNREAD FROM START TO FINISH.
THE INTERNET HAS CHANGED THE AMOUNT OF THE BIBLE THAT IS BEING READ TODAY. BIBLE GATEWAY.COM IN THREE MONTHS RECEIVED 25 MILLION HITS FOR SCRIPTURE. MULTIPLY THAT FOR ONE YEAR AND IT IS 100 MILLION HITS–IN A DECADE, ONE BILLION.